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I'm going to assume that this was this event... https://www.laco.org/events/gala/

Sigh... yes this is one of the big ones for me as well!

It’s been awhile since this has been given a spin. Forgot how consistently good Bear can be.

Got to splurge a little and fill some gaps in the collection.

But the Holiday special "could" happen! [P.S. To be clear, it was a joke]

A new interview from what looks like late last year that lasts 1.5 hours with Mike taking about his work through the years. The interview starts around 36 minutes in.

Hey @Antonb Yes Screen Archives is very legit. I've ordered from them for years. Their tracking link/service they use to display tracking info is broken on the site but if you copy paste the tracking number into something else, For example usps.com, the tracking number will work. I've had to do the same thing for a little while now.

It appears as many as possible did.... it's gone again!

I know that Markings was played at that concert but was Across the stars an encore or something? https://news.imz.at/industry-news/news/the-berlin-concert-anne-sophie-mutter-lang-lang-4358296/ Asking so I can add to the chronology project

Thanks @Arnaud2 I've really enjoyed putting it together so far and there's always more updates coming. I also have a couple other projects on the go that I'm going to release when they hit a point that I've gone through and made sure they are not full of errors. One of them is a sheet tracking all of the orchestra performers across the Williams scores that we know of. For the Chronology, my hope is to keep growing it and make it as comprehensive as possible. That said if anyone has any sources you think are great places to look I'm always on the lookout to keep things going.

WOW! Time really has flown. I remember finding the Episode 1 The music when I was in High school in 1999 on my Pentium 133 with a 56k modem and having to set the machine up overnight to download the mp3 pieces that the site was offering as we slowly pieced together the score! It was magic as the site got its own forums and I remember always being a little bummed as I couldn't go to the live chats due to the time difference. Fast forward and now my daughter is only 2 years younger then I was back then and I'm still visiting the site just about everyday! Thanks to @Ricard @Jay @Andreas and everyone else who have made this site what it is over the years! Honestly If it takes 30-60 days builds to build a habit then visiting this site is engrained in my being at this point. On a side note I wondering how many of us with the old "may 2002" accounts are still around these days?

one can hope!

I've never sat down with my phone, caught up on a thread and been so happy once second, clicked to the next page, and was so instantly bummed out the next!...... ugh

Ha Ha Ha! It's almost like he ran into the room with an uber eats delivery and went "Shoot! That interview is now!?!" threw it in the chair and jumped on the call. Decent interview, was able to catch it live. Honestly though I think my favorite part was at the begining when he talked about his starting his relationship with JA at Ubeda.

@Swanny There is indeed a J. Archer credited in the Fiddler 50th liner notes. So far it’s the only instance I have found but we only really have the specialty labels liner notes to go on and the London lists are few and far between. The lists must exist somewhere. here’s. A photo of the violins listed on Fiddler.

@Swanny We do indeed have a list of the players from at least the Fiddler Film Sessions that were presented in the 50th anniversary package. I've also been cataloging all of the players we know about from the specialty releases. If you wanted to give me the name I can see what we (the general public) know so far? EDIT: I guess I should have checked first but our known list of London contractors like those on Fiddler is rather limited but I'm still happy to take a look

It would, as usual, be very interesting to see the original cue sheets/ session recordings to figure out what was originally written/recorded for this one!? Thanks @Jay for taking all this time to figure this out... I've been waiting to try an edit from the 5.1 channel rip I got off the blu ray but haven't had the time to figure all this out... You sir as usual are coming to the rescue! Now to Adobe Audition to try some of this!

Similar to @Datameister's thought, Though it may not be definitive Page 26 of Chris Malones often cited and excellent "Recording the Star Wars Saga" Has some great insight on the sound of the Jedi SE's. Below is just a snippit. https://www.malonedigital.com/starwars.pdf

I’m pretty sure the Arnold scores were recorded at AIR Studios in London. https://composer.spitfireaudio.com/en/articles/air-studios-the-recording-destination-for-countless-iconic-scores

I was super happy to get the 2 Disc edition of this score for Christmas this year and wow am I happy with it. These scores always seemed like the more sophisticated bigger sibling to Bear's Masters of the Universe work which I seem to keep spinning over and over again so I'm down for as much of both properties he wants to give us... and that Gladrials theme, I swear won't get out of my head since this score dropped in 2022. So every time I want to get some Gladrial Theme hit in my system that Sheet @Jay did with all the theme placements has been my guide!

Part 2 was another great round table discussion! Bravo. It brought the songs to another level for me for sure. Yes I was always curious about them but the score was THE reason I was there. I certainly listened to them when I got the set but hearing the group go through them really made me listen again so thanks! Like several folks mentioned Hook is something we keep finding new things in 30+ years later. Now did my ears deceive me or was there a part III alluded to ?? Maybe it was just discussion of "oh if we ever did a part III..." but I'm down for as much time as you guys want to record and edit Either way as usual these episodes are a gift that I keep coming back to time and time again.

That's a great question I hadn't heard the Tanglewood one... maybe someone who has knows ??

Finally got a chance to listen to the Hook episode! I always love when Mike M. says something along the lines of I don't know if anyone cares to hear this.... then he proceeds to blow my mind!

It is geo-blocked BUT like was mentioned a quick few settings with a VPN and voila, watching from North America! Great concert by the way, Williams looked really good and that version of Anakin's Theme may be my favorite yet! It really had the juxtaposition of the pain/tragedy vs innocence wrapped together.

~ 20 or so updates have been pushed to the live chronology following the release of Hook and the Quartet Heidi/Jane Eyre sets with their insights fixing some uncertainty around a few dates for those scores.